accommodate

accommodate

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English

Etymology

1530s, from Latin accommodātus, perfect passive participle of accommodō; ad + commodō (make fit, help); com- + modus (measure, proportion) (English mode).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /əˈkɒməˌdeɪt/, [əˈkʰɒməˌdeɪt]
  • (US) IPA(key): /əˈkɑməˌdeɪt/, [əˈkʰɑməˌdeɪt]

Verb

accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodating, simple past and past participle accommodated)

  1. (transitive, often reflexive) To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt.
    Synonyms: adapt, conform, adjust, arrange, suit
  2. (transitive) To cause to come to agreement; to bring about harmony; to reconcile.
    Synonym: reconcile
  3. (transitive) To provide housing for.
  4. To provide sufficient space for
  5. (transitive) To provide with something desired, needed, or convenient.
  6. (transitive) To do a favor or service for; to oblige.
    Synonym: oblige
  7. (transitive) To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.
  8. (transitive) To give consideration to; to allow for.
  9. (transitive) To contain comfortably; to have space for.
  10. (intransitive, rare) To adapt oneself; to be conformable or adapted; become adjusted.
  11. (intransitive, of an eye) To change focal length in order to focus at a different distance.

Antonyms

  • discommodate (obsolete)

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

accommodate (comparative more accommodate, superlative most accommodate)

  1. (obsolete) Suitable; fit; adapted; as, means accommodate to end.

Further reading

  • “accommodate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • “accommodate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Adverb

accommodātē (comparative accommodātius, superlative accommodātissimē)

  1. suitably

Related terms

  • accommodātiō
  • accommodātus
  • accommodō
  • accommodus

References

  • accommodate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • accommodate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • accommodate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [əˈkɔmədet]

Verb

accommodate (third-person singular simple present accommodates, present participle accommodatin, simple past accomodatit, past participle accommodat)

  1. accommodate

References

  • Eagle, Andy, de. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

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